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(...) I like the sliding doors, but I don't think it needs to be so big. On a smaller ship, that size would be a bit of a handicap... --Bill. (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I think that the doors are the biggest problem in a universal docking system: big ships can have sliging doors bot on smaller craft there is nowhere near enough room. Hatches or something like that need to be used. Ill have a fiddle around in (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Suggestion For Universal Standard (was Re: docking systems)
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there can be more than 1 standard. ie: size... bigger ship might have 2 ports, standard and smaller for smaller ships docking. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Zac Soden" <zac_soden@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Well my take on it is that the docking standard was for capital ships and dock/bases, not for small ships. That is why I opted for a 6 wide sliding door docking port. I made the design as compact as I could for smaller capital ships. Anything (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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This makes me think of the small personnel transports that we see in Star Trek 1 and 2 (the movies) where the small craft dock to a small round docking port on the side of the ship. Sort of like externally mounted escape pods that can be piloted (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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